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Review: Dora Wings 1/47 P-47C-2 Thunderbolt

by Tom Cleaver on October 18, 2024 · in Reviews · 20 ≡

The sky over the English Channel on July 28, 1943 was partly cloudy, an early indicator that the past week of clear weather over northwestern Europe was coming to an end. Fifteen miles west of the Dutch coast, the 40 P-47 Thunderbolts of [...]

Review: MiniArt 1/48 P-47D-25RE "No Guts... No Glory!"

by Tom Cleaver on February 17, 2024 · in Reviews · 25 ≡

78th Fighter Group ground crewman Warren Kellerstadt recalled: “They didn’t tell us when D-Day was going to be, but the night before we could smell something in the wind. They closed up the base tight and wouldn’t let anyone on or [...]

"Snafu": P-47D-6-RE of 78th Figher Group, 84th Fighter Squadron – Tamiya 1/48

by Tom Cleaver on September 2, 2022 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

The P-47D series entered production at Republic’s Farmingdale Long Island factory in May 1943, and the first of them showed up in England in late June. From the first, the P-47D was plumbed to carry a droppable external gas tank on the [...]

Off the SoD – Hasegawa 1/48 P-47D "Eileen"

by Tom Cleaver on January 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 25 ≡

Everyone liked the Hasegawa P-47s when they came out 25 years ago, then lost interest when the Tamiya P-47s came out 18 (!) years ago. Yes, there is a shape problem with the fuselage, the belly is too shallow - but not so much that it is [...]

Another 78th FG P-47 – Frank Oiler’s “Eileen” – 1/32 hasegawa

by Tom Cleaver on March 23, 2013 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

With two other 78th FG P-47s up today, I might as well follow the theme. I've done a lot of studying this past year of these P-47s while writing "Aces of the 78th Fighter Group" (which Osprey will publish this coming [...]